If you're doing a double wrap around the cable and pipe anyway, it adds less than two seconds to turn it into a clove hitch.
If you're doing a double wrap around the cable and pipe anyway, it adds less than two seconds to turn it into a clove hitch.
When running cable across a grid or down a batten, is it better to tie the cable up with tie line or wrap the cable around the pipe? I think we wrapped it in college, and I have seen it done both ways recently. Partly past experience and seeming ease of labor makes me favor the wrapping method.
I've never been told if there is a reason for doing this one way over another. I am aware that wrapping the cable probably creates something of an inductor, but is it enough to hinder the operation of the dimmer/lights? Wouldn't coiling the cable at one end produce something of the same effect? As much as there are such things in this business, is there a standard way to do this? Number of ties or number or turns per foot or something like that?
Knives with cable ties tends to get dangerous.
We use large cable ties to keep our multi ends on the pipe. I prefer to take them down with a pair of dykes as opposed to a knife. Its a bit quicker for me.What I've found to be the safest way to use a knife with a cable tie, is to slide the knife under the tie so it catches, and then "flick" your wrist upward a bit. It's enough pressure so that the cable tie will break, but you don't have really any momentum behind the motion that could escape once the cable tie pressure is released.
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